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In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked
In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked
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2019-08-17
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问题
In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the correct answer. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.
At 7pm on a Friday night, a dozen people are standing anxiously in a Berlin classroom, listening to Lorenz Pollmann take attendance. "Fau Hildbebrandt?" the softly-spoken Stuttgart native calls out to the crowd, before shaking his head and continuing down the list. Although the setting is a collage located in an old factory building, tonight’s crowd isn’t here to take part in a seminar, but to attend one of the secret concerts Pollmann has been organizing around the city for the past several years.
Pollamann Cosy Concerts, which take place in various small spaces, are part of an increasingly popular Berlin trend of throwing intimate musical events in unconventional, usually private, locations. Although similar projects have been organized in cities around the world over the past five years, the German capital has become something of a hotspot for fans of super small-scale concerts—some, like the Home Opera concerts, specialize in one genre of music, and while others, like Sejour, in living-room locations.
Once he’s finished taking attendance, Pollmann leads the group, which registered online in advance downstairs and into the school’s sparse, humid basement. There, a relatively new brand, Fox on the Run—fronted by Jasper Andre Friedrich, a well-known figure from the East German punk scene—is getting ready to launch into a
raucous
set. The space is dark and sweaty; the walls are ringed with shelves holding cables and insulation. It’s an impractical setting for a concert, but as the evening progresses, it becomes a uniquely relaxed one. Sitting just a few feet from the band, the audience can see the sweat beading on Andre Friedrich’s forehead as they banter with him between songs.
Pollmann Cosy Concerts series first took shape in 2010, when the professor of media and event management and a friend came up with the idea of reviving the concept of the musical salon and reinventing it for the modern age. "We wanted to do it with pop and rock and other genres," he explains. He recruited local bands and convinced them to host concerts in their own spaces—like living rooms and rehearsal spaces. The feat wasn’t always easy: "Some bands really didn’t want people to use their toilets," he says, "even though we promised we would clean them after. "
To avoid overcrowding the small venues, people had to reserve the free tickets in advance, but even so, he managed to attract several hundred concertgoers to the series’ inaugural 2011 edition, and even more the following year. "It was a total success," he says. One of his favorite locations, he says, was a greenhouse on top of building in the city’s Neukolln neighborhood that "was filled with plants and usually used by the band to drink beers". Because of his heavy teaching workload, this year’s festival was a truncated one—only three planned concerts, one of which is public event at a record store with the singer-songwriter, Madchen aus Berlin—but he’s convinced that the series is a perfect fit into the city’s long tradition of flouting rules and norms.
Elena Bruckner, a berlin native who’s been organizing a local edition of the Dutch living-room concert series Live in the Living for the past eight years, agrees.- "In Berlin we’re used to using spaces differently from how they were intended to be. " The city’s techno culture, for example, first took hold in abandoned warehouses and bunkers after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when the sheer number of empty buildings made it easy for organizers to throw illegal parties without the authorities ever taking notice. Although Berlin is no longer as freewheeling as it was then, that same anarchic attitude still remains a part of the city’s social fabric. "I think a lot of Berliners now undervalue that there are still a lot of undefined spaces here," she says. "Private spaces, like living rooms, are defined, but they’re still informal—it’s very Berlin. " It also helps that the city’s reasonable rents make it more likely that people have sizeable living rooms to throw concerts in.
For Bruckner—who also works as a theater director and was, she claims, the first person to bring the concept to Berlin—the biggest appeal of the home concerts is their sense of intimacy. When she first encountered the idea of the "living-room concert", on a trip to the Netherlands, she loved pecking through the hosts’ CD collections to get a sense of who they are. "I guess you can’t do that so much anymore," she says, "but you can look at their books, and seeing a person’s apartment still tells you a lot about the person. " And, even as an organizer, the living-room concert allows the kind of unpredictability you wouldn’t have in a more official venue. "One time we were disassembling furniture before a concert and one person go buried under his own bed," she says.
Since last year, another even more unconventional concert event, called "The Night of the Singing Balconies", has been taking place in the eastern neighborhood of Friedrichshain. But unlike Bruckner and Pollmann, the concert’s organizer, Volker Siems had a very specific social purpose: to bring neighbors together. The event—which consists of a number of short concerts on peoples balconies, ranging from opera to Tibetan music, performed to prearranged walking groups—was an outgrowth of his other community-building activities, like organizing flea markets and picnics. He was motivated by what he sees as a growing alienation between Berlin’s residents.
Berlin has become a magnet for people from around the world, drawn by the city’s cheap cost of living and its reputation as a nightlife mecca, or driven by the desire to get away from countries hard-hit by the euro crisis. "We now living in this very cosmopolitan city. " says Siems. He hopes that with events like the Singing Balconies, and his other concert series, Singing Living Rooms, he can help foster a sense of community between long-tome residents and new arrivals. "There are so may treasures hidden behind the building facades that we can access if we’re a bit less anonymous with one another. "
That same communal spirit is in evidence at the Fox on the Run concert. Although the basement is sweltering, the chatty crowd sticks around after the set to drink and jam on the instruments. Andre Friedrich, the former GDR punk, sits in the corner sipping a beer. Although he used to play concerts in East German squats: "Sometimes half of the floorboards would be missing and people would step through the floor. "
Mostly, though he likes being able to measure people’s reactions to the music as he plays. If there’s anything he could have changed, it would have been to make the concert even smaller. "We could easily have been closer. " He laughs.
The following sentences may explain why people are attracted by living-room concerts in Berlin EXCEPT________.
选项
A、people want to erase the growing alienation between each other
B、people might encounter the kinds of unpredictability that they wouldn’t have in official concerts
C、some of them except to seek for the kind of escape from financial crisis
D、Berlin is a well-known city for its nightlife
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。倒数第四段第二句提到,沃尔克.西姆斯有一个明确的社会目的,要把邻里都聚集起来,故A项表述符合文意,可排除。倒数第五段倒数第二句指出,相较于在正式场所举办音乐会,室内音乐会存在不可预测性。B项表述只是事实,不是室内音乐会吸引大众的原因,本题为选非题,B项为答案。倒数第三段指出,柏林低廉的生活成本和丰富的夜生活吸引着世界各地的人们,人们可以远离欧元危机,也可以享受室内音乐会,C项和D项表述符合文意,可排除。
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